With “Immortals of Aveum,” a new single-player shooter has been released on Steam. However, the reviews are mixed, and many complain about the performance.
Immortals of Aveum launched on August 22, 2023, on Steam, but the reviews are only balanced. However, most of the criticism is not for the gameplay, but for the poor performance.
Some say the game was developed for the wrong hardware, but other players explain: The game doesn’t run smoothly even on high-end hardware, and the technical state is unacceptable.
Misconception about the typical gamer?
What does the community think? Among PC gamers, there are many dissatisfied with the state of the game. Some explain that the developers simply have the wrong ideas about the players. One person states in his Steam review:
If you don’t have an 8-core CPU or an RTX 3080 Ti, then do NOT buy the game! It seems the developers don’t understand that the average PC gamer does not have a 3090/4090. Based on other reviews, you can’t even get stable FPS with a high-end GPU.
I have a 3060Ti paired with an i7-11700F, and I couldn’t get more than 25 fps WITH DLSS! without massive stuttering.
Another explains: “Even with an [RTX] 4090 and a [Ryzen] 7950X3D, the game was very choppy.”
Some users from the community even believe that features like DLSS or FSR are to blame for developers no longer optimizing their games. Because with DLSS enabled, the framerate in the game looks significantly better. This leads to the critique of a user who complains that not everyone has a high-end graphics card installed in their computer.
But even the wonder technology DLSS seems to no longer give games the performance boost it did in its early days. And users with older GPUs that do not support DLSS are left in the dust.
Many players are also unimpressed: The game lacks important settings, such as HDR options. For a game that is supposed to showcase the advantages of Unreal Engine 5, that’s quite little.
2023 is the year of weak PC ports
How has the year 2023 been so far? From the perspective of PC gamers, there have officially been plenty of exciting releases and games. However, the fewest could convince with good performance. Already Star Wars: Jedi Survivor launched catastrophically on Steam not because of bad gameplay, but because the technology was simply not good.
Games like
- Wild Hearts (Mixed 47%)
- Wo Long Fallen Dynasty (Mixed 47%)
- RedFall (Mostly negative, 37%)
- Forspoken (Mixed 60%)
all received bad reviews in a row because the technology simply could not convince. Many players also do not see why they should spend so much money on a bad port.
However, a few developers have already stated that these problems are likely never going to be solvable:
Why are PC ports a disaster in 2023? Developers explain why the problem is almost unsolvable
